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Dr. Bowdler Sharpe described a new species of Dove, 

 from tlie Province of Salta ; Argentina, which he proposed 

 to call 



Gymnopelia morenoi, n. sp. 



G. supra griseo-brunnea, concolor, minime rufo-fasciata : 

 alis dorso concoloribus : ala spuria, tectricibus prirna- 

 riorum et remigibus nigricantibus, his intus rufescent- 

 ibus apicem versus brunneis, extus rufo limbatus : pileo 

 paullo saturatiore : linea superciliari indistincta, nigra : 

 regione periophthalmica nuda, flava : facie lateralis 

 gutture et prsepectore colutnbino -cinereis, corpore 

 reliquo subtus vinaceo, crisso et hypochondriis vix 

 ruf escentiori bus : cauda nigra, remigibus medianis 

 brunneis, apicem versus nigris, tribus externis a) bo 

 gradatim terrainatis : iride alba. Long. tot. circa 6 7 

 poll., culm. 0'45, alse 3'85, caudse 2*6, tarsi 07. 

 Hah. Inca-huasi, Province of Salta, 3000 feet. Type 

 presented to the British Museum by Dr. Moreno. 



Obs. — This type specimen has been submitted to Count 

 Salvadori, who agrees with Dr. Sharpe that it belongs to an 

 undescribed species, and might indeed almost be considered 

 the type of a new genus. It possesses the bare periotic 

 space of Gymnopelia, but it differs entirely in its uniform 

 plumage and smaller size. Count Salvadori points out 

 that in the plain colouring of the plumage it resembles the 

 members of the genus Metriopelia and some of the Chamce- 

 pelice, the rufous colouring towards the base of the inner 

 web of the quills being a good character, which was also seen 

 in Metropelia aymara. 



Dr. Sharpe also proposed some changes of generic names 

 pre-occupied in other classes of zoology, which had been 

 brought to his notice by Dr. Stejneger, Dr. von Madarasz, 

 and Dr. Bianchi. 



Aethostoma, nom. emend, vice Trichostoma, Blyth, 184.2 



(nee Pictet, 1834, Neuroptera). 

 Setaria, Blyth, 1844, vice Malacopterum, Eyton, 1839 (nee 



Malacopterus, Sw. 1835, Coleoptera). 

 Nesobates, nom. emend, vice Oxylabes, Sharpe, 1870 (nee 

 Oxylabis, Forst. 185G, Hymcnoptera). 



